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Not so bad except that the player character is to most clumsy person in the universe and brushes against everything, sometimes misplacing important stuff in the process.How about NPCs that randomly die from who-knows-what. pretty disturbing. If you want your super-nifty downloadable content knife to be useful at the end of the game you have to get it at the end of the game. put a body in a doorway and its like the corpse gets super-post-mortum-stretch-power. Horrible when monsters become too powerful to be killed with your supposedly super-knife or protected from by your supposedly legendary armor.If you love obsessive leveling in order to even start the game at a level when some loot is as good as it gets (level 25 or 30) then Oblivion is for you.I shut all 64 oblivion gates in this game, got the best loot I could, completed every sidequest, but Morrowind is the game I'm still playing today. loot on tables and shelves can be knocked over.
Almost all the treasure in the game stays at the same stats as the beginning of the game. I have a lot of gripes with this game, here it goes;The physics engine, while cool, is broken. Sometimes when you kill something is flops and twitches like a person with head-trauma, its. If they are part of a quest, too bad, no quest completion.But the last nail in the coffin is leveled loot.
If not, this is the #1 RPG for Xbox 360 and you should BUY IT. You can't really command them, they get stuck behind doors, and aren't all that helpful in an actual fight other than being a great decoy.Games it most compares to are: Fallout 3, Fable 2, & Dragon Age: Origins.BOTTOM LINE: If you already own Oblivion and have bought the downloadable content from Xbox Live, then DO NOT purchase this game. -Have total control over your character's appearance from eyes to hair to skin color. Why. Have to actually learn to parry, use spells, & flee when you're overwhelmed. Most of landscapes are mountains, meadows, and caves.-The little, cheap add-ons like Battlehorn Castle are a bit of a rip-off.
You get a lot of rewards like a home and supplies, but not a whole lot to offer as quests goes.-Most AI comrades are idiots. Because it's everything an RPG should be. -Very long RPG, unless you just focus on the main quests, then just mediocre.-The expansion, Shivering Isles, brings about a whole new world with new quests, characters, and achievemants.-Isn't a simple button masher. You can also choose gender, race, birthday, etc.-So many options for clothes, armor, spells, attributes, weapons, etc.-Hours upon hours of looting and exploration.-A mass amount of different enemies.CONS:-Occasionally glitchy and will freeze at least once, very seldom though.-Can get tiring by the time you get to the expansions. PROS: -More than enough quests with a vast variety.-A whole world to explore.-Four different guilds and you can join them all: warrior's, thieve's, mage's, and assassin's guild.-Great graphics, 4.5 out of 5 stars.-Fantastic storyline.-So many different characters and you can converse with them all.-Can join the arena and fight against AI to become a champion gladiator.-A huge market system. My Review: This is by far the best RPG currently offered for Xbox 360, the only games it's rivaled by as far as graphics, gameplay, and storyline are Fallout 3 (also made by Bethsda) and the Mass Effect 1 & 2.
Several different stores to sell loot and buy new equipment. -I didn't even think about a second playthrough so very little replay value.-No multiplayer or online play whatsoever.-Somewhat of a lack of different landscapes and enviroments.
For example, I was a bit disappointed in the narrow range of environments in Oblivion.its either dungeons/caves or hilly forests, with a bit of mountains. Open-ended worlds, fully interactive environments, moral choices affecting gameplay, etc. You could forge your own weapons, bake bread, harvest crops, etc. I read so many great reviews that I had really high expectations, and it is a great game. I wish a really really good new Ultima game would be made. Ultima did all of this so much better than anything since, including Oblivion.
Oh well, Oblivion is really great, it's just not really ground breaking except that it's done to current standards. Oblivion is great fun and a great RPG. However, I must comment that the Ultima series was doing everything great in Oblivion back in 1992-1993. In Ultima you had forests, plains, swamps, desert, open seas, caves, snowy mountains.
You will continue to see rats, cats, bears, wolves, goblins throughout the game. It helps you adjust your character's build and your gameplay to the game. I love Oblivion's world, but getting lost in it is no fun especially when you want to get to that destination and do your thing. Then scroll to the Map and Quest menu and have your cursor over the location. I like having a follower because I get lonely in the game walking around by myself, but mines is a little snitching dog when I kill people or steal stuff. I wish this game mixed itself a bit with Fable 2, where you can form some businesses and whatnot. I mean sure you can use strategy to kill your opponent, but why use strategy when plain raw power and outright onslaughter will do just the same. LOAD.
Leveling up any skill in this game works like this: The more / fast you use it, the faster you'll level up. Fast travel is.GOD. Then in later levels, you find a few more. But there's nothing super cool or special about them and there's not many enemies in general.11. Exit house, LOAD. Oh yeah I also hate how when you click on your follower there's not an option to not choose either one so when you accidently click on them, you have to choose either to dismiss them or tell them to wait and since that was on accident, you gotta click them again to tell them to follow you again.7.
Enchanting means bestowing magical properties into the items that you wear or the weapons that you use. LOAD. I hate how you can accidentally steal stuff sometimes and get jumped for it and when you summon or have followers, you keep accidently hit them and then they turn on you. It's in your manual.6. Anyway, then there's other times when I raid a whole cave with ease on difficulty max.
Not much fun.3. I usually save every few minutes, I find it very worthwhile.5. Not that many unique interesting enemies. It's like playing tag for real and playing it with little kids that you know have no chance in catching you, but you pretend to let them catch you. It's not how big or costly the spell is, it's how many times you use it. Opps, made a mistake. UESP is something you must check out if you haven't.
Many of the quest items are leveled, meaning you won't get the best of certain items until you're around lvl 25-30. I wish I can also scroll down to the bottom of my list with a click of a button, if there is someone tell me. I got hit with spells from A through Z and the only way I beated it at my current state was putting it on medium to easy. I got murderized in like 3 seconds. Is it me or are most of the caves look the same. Use Hotkeys.
Go all the way back out of the cave, load load load. Was I suppose to take the left door instead. Fable 2's business real life simulation + Dead Space kind of suspense + Oblivion + Zelda Ocarina of Time's memorable gameplay = Ultimate RPG.10. Enter house, LOAD. Fast travel by going into your Journal by pressing B.
I would probably kill myself if I have to keep walking around in this gigantic land. With the difficulty slider all the way to the right I notice a few things. I really hate how you can't have the option to have your map, local or world, on the actual screen. The lower the magicka cost, the better it is for you. Fast travel, LOAD.
Look up UESP on google. You can adjust it throughout your gameplay on Oblivion.7. I have my difficulty slider all the way to the right now but I notice that the game doesn't really grip me and put me on the edge like "holy marshmallows. I mean you can get pretty good stuff, but you'll find that enchanting your own item works best. No suspense or later on there's no real suspense. You just slash and use spells to kill your opponent, I just don't see a huge amount of strategy when I fight my enemy. You will, however, need an enchanting alter found in FrostCrag DLC or Arcane University which is only accessible later on.9. I'm so thankful for the difficulty slider because without it I think this game would be completely wack.
What was that." It's like you just go and attack and the fighting isn't super indepth. I don't understand why not.2. I remember yesturday trying to find this ruin, I continuously got blocked by slopes that I couldn't get over and had to do a round trip in order to find a way in. I mean if you go to caves like crayfish, haynote/heynote and greenmead cave, you'll sorta notice some places that look awfully the same. I know your items are organized, but there's many stuff you can keep in this game I wish there was more organization or a different kind of system. Many of the stuff in this game is leveled including opponents and items. Another reason is because you also encounter pretty much the same type of enemies in most of them.12. So this game is either not challenging or too hard.
If you start having glitch problems such as problems completing a quest and you dont know why, the first thing you should usually try is to reload your game and clear your system cache. Different types of missions. The glarmor and nice graphics are killed by built up anxiety, impatience, and frustration of actually getting to where you want.8. You can give your enemies a bunch of handicaps to make the fighting more interesting, but who are you kidding. So far I've only encountered missions that dealt with:a) Having to kill someone or fake someone's death or something relating to someone getting killed.b) Being a messenger boy or getting somebody together.c) Being a bodyguard9. Always save often. Can't delete spells. You'll find much better stuff around lvl 20+++.
So if you want to level up a skill like conjuration fast, use a conjuration type spell like bound item and continuously cast. Oblivion has many glitches. You will probably expect to feel similar when playing the game, but everyone's opinion differs. If you're the type that knows how and when to save and remembers to save, then turn off autosave. If fast travel is possible, then the option to press A to fast travel will be available as long as there's no enemies trying to get you or you're in a house or something.
It might not be so wack for the experience players, but it will be for many.4. The best weapons in this game is a weapon you enchant yourself and is not found in the game or given to you. Btw just wanted to add that FAST TRAVEL is one of the best thing in this game so I don't know why some people put it down. I hate that. You also encounter new enemies as you level up higher but some old enemies will still be there.3. After every few saves, make a new save file and don't delete the older save files until you're sure you dont need them. If you press START and go to GAMEPLAY, you can adjust the difficulty slider left to right.
Directions in the first sticky on this board.8. But you should also remember to explore. Enter cave, LOAD. Either the fighting remains easy as heck or I get beat the crap out of. Other than a few different tunnels and endings here and there.once you raid one cave, you sorta raid them all. Winning with all your strength and smarts is the best kind of fighting. I'm here to talk about the flaws so you guys can see both sides to the game.
I'm just here to analyze the flaws.FLAWS and ISSUES1. You should definitely dl the patches when and if you can, it's worth it. Like there was the final mission for saving Kvatch, where you're about to open the gate after going through the underground place and there's enemies outside the gate in mass. If you enter and exit a place, sometimes you won't have to load though.TIPS TO A GOOD GAME:1.
Fast travel makes the world a lot smaller and exploring is a good idea. Again, great game, I'm not saying it isn't. Go to the next level in the cave, LOAD.
I just back up a little and let me summon go in first then I pick at the enemy from the sides. I keep having to scroll alllll the way to the bottom.5. The loading is supposedly a lot better than Morrowind, however, it can get a bit abnoxious sometimes.
Same for the other skills, magic related or not.4. I have to save all the time because of that. If you want glowing reviews, read the other one.
I admit, I have a bad sense of direction, I mean in real life I use my Garmin to go to the store that's 2 blocks away, but I get lost all the time in this game and I have to keep going into my menu over and over to see where I am.6. It's the wikipedia of this game.2.
Great deal for the money. Has well over 200 hours of gameplay, I highly recommend this to any RPG fan.
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